Basic Sheet Metal Bending

[lilredex]

Here is a shop teacher illustrating the use of a stomp shear and a finger brake, to make vise jaw protectors for his herd of what looks like Records.

Those jaw caps could be made right in the vise you are making them for. If you had access to a shop like that, think of all the missing toolbox drawers you could make.

This must be the last shop like this in existence. Looks much like the one I was in at S.A.I.T. in 1962.

 

[lis2323]

That was cool. Thanks for posting that!

 

[lilredex]

Yes! I'm ready to go back to school if that could be my workshop and instructor.......where do I apply? Could do some volunteering in a place like that too.

 

[bczygan]

I've got a shop and instructors like that in community college.

And that's a good project idea for my fabrication class next Friday.

Bill

 

[ZRX61]

Most people make then by cutting the sheet metal & then just form them around the vise jaws with a mallet.

 

[lis2323]

That’s what I would do. Keep in mind that video was (hopefully) an exercise in layout basics for students and not a how to do for people with half a brain.

 

[mikegt4]

My daughter built these tool boxes back in high school during the time period between letting girls take shop classes and totally eliminating them all together. They started a program to purge all non college prep students to a county run industrial arts/technical based HS. My son would have loved to take some shop classes few years latter but as explained to me by the consular they didn't want students who would ruin their "% graduates going on to college" rating. It seemed to me that a lot of their "college bound" graduates were doing so on athletic scholarships.

 

[eyeball]

Here is a shop teacher illustrating the use of a stomp shear and a finger brake, to make vise jaw protectors for his herd of what looks like Records.

Those jaw caps could be made right in the vise you are making them for. If you had access to a shop like that, think of all the missing toolbox drawers you could make.



This must be the last shop like this in existence. Looks much like the one I was in at S.A.I.T. in 1962.

This video brings back some memories. In 8th grade metal shop we made that exact project as well as the hammer he clamped in the vise at the and of the video.